How Big Tech turns privacy laws into privacy theater. • Data Protection News

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Privacy law is manifested in practice as a litany of “Agree” buttons to consent to data collection and a series of long, convoluted statements of data

As critics warn of genetic 'surveillance', RCMP explores use of DNA matching in criminal probes • Data Protection News

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While law enforcement's use of genetic genealogy has been credited with advancing and solving cold cases, it's also raising ethical questions about how police

Court of Justice of the EU Finds that Advertising Shown in Email Inbox is Subject to Rules on Direct Marketing • Data Protection News

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On November 26, 2021, the Court of Justice of the EU (“CJEU”) held in Case C-102/20 that the display of advertising messages in an electronic inbox in a form

UN Special Rapporteurs challenge EU’s counter-terrorism plans • Data Protection News

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In a joint communication published on 21 October 2021, seven United Nations Special Rapporteurs shared critical analysis of the European Union’s